hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:36:18AM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that > > hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Marc Espie said that > > > They assume you will always have the microsoft core fonts installed, > > > even though these basically ARE NOT open source. > > > > if i am not mistaken generic names like "times", "helvetica", > > "courier", etc are used by more foundries, not only microsoft... > > so perhaps there was no such assumption from their side and > > simply the prehistoric bitmap fonts are used because, well, > > they are prehistoric and have been here forever.. > > > > on the other hand i am not sure an unconditional system-wide > > override should be the way to go, are we now supposed to fight > > with config files when we add arbitrary font packages? > > > > i am quite interested why was this change promoted from a personal > > fontconfig setting to a system-wide one. wouldn't it be enough > > to have this change for people who want it in their personal > > fontconfig overrides? > > perhaps you are right. > > the people who want mozilla to be able to print should configure > it so. > > by default, people should end up with broken ps and pdf files.
well, i dont have even have firefox installed. why should i care? now i will have to override an override to get the expected behaviour. since when is openbsd firefox's bitch? -f -- a martyr is a hero who didn't make it.
